With Fabric, we focused on simplicity, openness, and autonomy. All Fabric workloads work together seamlessly out-of-the-box without the myriad of infrastructure and configuration settings you typically find in data platforms so you can focus on getting results. You can ingest structured and unstructured data in any format into OneLake’s open Delta Parquet format and even access third-party tools from industry leading software companies built directly into Fabric. Advanced security, governance, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) capabilities are woven into the platform with personalized experiences for admins and users alike. Microsoft Copilot and other AI capabilities are built into every layer of Fabric to help data professionals and business users automate routine tasks and get more done. In fact, we’ve found that users were 52% faster in completing standard data analysis tasks and uncovered insights 36% more accurately when using Copilot in Fabric, with 90% saying they were likely to adopt Copilot in Fabric.¹  

Fabric’s vision for a data platform has highly resonated with the industry, and more than 17,000 customers, including 70% of the Fortune 500, are already using Fabric to empower their data teams.

• Melbourne Airport, the second busiest in Australia, used Fabric to analyze their operational data in real-time and gained 30% increased performance efficiency across data-related operations. “It’s a radical and powerful new technology that can feel just like using Microsoft Excel or Power BI. But once in the hands of the user, it doesn’t feel like a new, complex technology at all,” Irfan Khan, Head of Data and Analytics.  
• Chanel, a world leader in luxury fashion, adopted Fabric not only to drive more value from its data and support their AI innovation, but also safeguard its data at rest and in-transit with Fabric’s end-to-end, built-in security, governance, and reliability. “We chose Microsoft Fabric as the foundation of this platform, driven by its ability to implement a data mesh approach,” Olivier Barbonnat, Chief Information Officer Europe.  
• Our own Microsoft IDEAS (insights, data, engineering, analytics, systems) team, one of the largest data teams in the world, transitioned to Fabric to support its AI ambitions. Its solution now encompasses 27,000 data sources, 420 petabytes of data, 35,000 data pipelines, 38,000 semantic models, and more than 600 teams relying on its models. The IDEAS team estimated it has received a 50% efficiency boost from consolidating assets in OneLake, using modern tools such as Spark and Python, Direct Lake mode in Microsoft Power BI, and AI-assisted coding through IDEAS Copilot.

Schaeffler, Hitachi Solutions, KPMG, Epic, and many other customers have seen a transformational impact to how they process data. You can explore all these Fabric stories on the Microsoft Customer Stories page. One of the reasons Fabric caught the imagination of so many is because, with Fabric, you can simplify and future-proof your data estate. Fabric’s capabilities and workloads will continue to expand and be seamlessly infused into our pre-integrated platform, helping you keep up with the technology trends without added work.  

And since launching Fabric, we’ve added new ways to bring data into Fabric with capabilities like mirroring and new shortcut sources. We’ve expanded Copilot in Fabric across almost every experience to help everyone automate routine tasks. We’ve added a multitude of security and governance features to help you make sure your data is secure at every step of its journey. We’ve added the ability to extend Fabric further with native, industry-specific workloads from Microsoft and other software developers. And most impactfully, we launched a new workload to help organizations make better decisions from Internet of Things (IoT), logs, and telemetry data—Real-Time Intelligence.  

With Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, we transformed Fabric into a platform equipped to support your operational scenarios and data in motion. And now, we’re helping you bring transactional scenarios to Fabric with the introduction of Fabric Databases. 

Introducing a unified data platform with Fabric Databases

Currently, the data and AI technology market is massively fragmented with hundreds of vendors and thousands of services. We believe the future of data and AI is the convergence of all your data services into a unified, open, and extensible platform, so you no longer have to manually stitch together disconnected services.  

Today, we’re thrilled to announce a major leap toward this goal with Fabric Databases, now in preview. Fabric Databases represent a new class of cloud databases that brings a world-class transactional database natively to Microsoft Fabric for app developers. With the addition of Fabric Databases, Fabric now brings together both transactional and analytical workloads, creating a truly unified data platform. Developers can streamline application development with simple, autonomous, and AI-optimized databases that provision in seconds and are secured by default with features like cloud authentication and database encryption. Built-in vector search, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) support, and Azure AI integration simplify AI app development, and your data is instantly available in OneLake for advanced analytics. Developers can even use Copilot in Fabric to translate natural language queries into SQL and get inline code completion alongside code fixes and explanations.

SQL database, the first available in Fabric, was built on our industry-leading SQL Server engine and the simple and intuitive SaaS platform of Fabric. In fact, data professionals who’ve tried SQL database in Fabric were able to complete common database tasks up to 71% faster and with 63% more effective task completion. They reported feeling 84% more confident in these tasks and finding the tasks up to 91% less difficult.²  These results were even more pronounced for people who were newer to cloud. Those with less than two years of cloud platform experience benefited the most in terms of efficiency and effectiveness, highlighting the simplicity and intuitiveness of Fabric Databases. 

SQL database is just the beginning for Fabric Databases, with more databases on the roadmap. Whether you’re an experienced data professional or just getting started, you can build AI apps faster and more confidently on Fabric Databases.

To learn more, read the Fabric Databases blog post, watch the Microsoft Mechanics deep dive video, and watch the following sizzle video:

General availability of Fabric Real-Time Intelligence

We’re also thrilled to announce Real-Time Intelligence is now generally available. With Real-Time Intelligence, you get both pro-dev and no-code tools to ingest high-volume streaming data with high granularity, dynamically transform streaming data, query data in real-time for instant insights, and trigger automated actions based on the data. The Real-time hub provides a central place to discover and manage all your streaming data. Dener Motorsport, a participant in the annual Porsche Carrera Cup Brasil event, used Real-Time Intelligence for in-race analytics, and their CEO, Dener Pires, said “Before we used Microsoft Fabric and Real-Time Intelligence, it was probably 30 minutes before the engineers knew that something was wrong with a car, could get the data, analyze it, and provide a solution. Today that process is done in minutes.” Check out this blog post and the following demo to see Real-Time Intelligence in action: 

OneLake catalog—a complete catalog for discovery, management, and governance

No matter what data project you’re trying to accomplish, it starts with the right foundation. OneLake, Fabric’s unified, multi-cloud data lake, is built for everyone in your entire organization as the single point to discover and explore your data. With OneLake shortcuts and mirroring, you can unify all of your multi-cloud and on-premise sources and enable your people to work from the same data—meaning fewer copies of data, better collaboration between your teams, and easier, more streamlined analysis. And since data is stored in an open format, you can use data in OneLake for all your data projects, no matter the vendor or service.  

Today, we’re excited to announce the OneLake catalog, a complete solution to explore, manage, and govern your entire Fabric data estate. The OneLake catalog comes with two tabs, Explore and Govern, that can help all Fabric users discover and manage trusted data, as well as provide governance for data owners with valuable insights, recommended actions, and tooling. Since the OneLake catalog is an evolution of the OneLake data hub, it already shows up in Microsoft 365, such as in Excel and Microsoft Teams and many other products in the Microsoft cloud for easy data consumption. OneLake catalog value can be extended to the Microsoft Purview data governance solution, Unified Catalog, which offers the data office, data stewards, and data owners advanced governance capabilities, including data quality and a global catalog for the heterogeneous data estate. The Explore tab is now generally available, and the Govern tab will be coming soon in preview.  

Learn more about the OneLake catalog by reading this blog post and by watching the following demo:

More Fabric innovation

The introduction of Fabric Databases and the growing opportunity with generative AI in accelerating data projects has encouraged us to reimagine the pillars of Fabric. We are now focused on making sure Fabric can provide you with: 

• An AI-powered data platform. Fabric can give your teams the AI-powered tools needed for any data project in a pre-integrated and optimized SaaS environment. You can even extend Fabric further by adding other native workloads from the Workload Hub, created by industry-leading partners.  
• An open and AI-ready data lake. Fabric can help you access your entire multi-cloud data estate from a single data lake, work from the same copy of data across analytics engines, and ensure your data is ready to power AI innovation.  
• AI-enabled business users. Fabric can empower everyone to better understand your data with AI-enhanced Q&A experiences and visuals embedded in the Microsoft 365 apps they use every day. 
• A mission-critical foundation. You can confidently deploy and manage Fabric with category-leading performance, instant scalability, shared resilience, and built-in security, governance, and compliance. 

Check out the new Fabric sizzle video to see these pillars in action: 

We’re excited to share a huge slate of announcements designed to help us better accomplish each goal above. These enhancements include: 

Fabric workload enhancements

• The general availability of sustainability data solutions in Microsoft Fabric, a single place for all your environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data needs. Julie Nikulina, IT Solutions Engineer at Schaeffler AG, a global automotive and industrial supplier, mentioned that, “thanks to Microsoft Fabric, we’ll be able to answer lots of questions about climate neutrality and decarbonization company-wide via a single platform—and we can implement new use cases in short sprints within two to six weeks.”  
• Coming soon, the preview of AI functions in Fabric notebooks, which provide a simplified API for common AI text enrichments like summarization, translation, sentiment analysis, and more. 
• The general availability of API for GraphQL, which is an API to help you access data from multiple sources in Fabric with a single query API. 
• The preview of several enhancements to Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, which include new Fabric events, enhancements to Eventstreams and Eventhouses, and easier real-time dashboard sharing. 
• The preview of the Copilot in Fabric experience for data pipelines in Fabric Data Factory. 
• The preview of our integration with Esri ArcGIS for advanced spatial analytics. 

Microsoft OneLake enhancements

• The preview of open mirroring, a feature that allows any application or data provider to write change data directly into a mirrored database within Fabric. 
• The general availability of Azure SQL DB mirroring and the preview of SQL MI mirroring. 

New AI capabilities in Fabric

• Coming soon, the preview of AI skill enhancements, including a more conversational experience and support for semantic models and Eventhouse KQL databases. 
• Coming soon, the preview of AI skill integration with Agent Service in the newly announced Azure AI Foundry, allowing developers to use AI skills as a core knowledge source. 

Platform-wide enhancements

• The preview of workspace monitoring, which provides detailed diagnostic logs for workspaces to troubleshoot performance issues, capacity performance, and data downtime. 
• The general availability of the Workload Development Kit, created to help software developers design, build, and interoperate applications within Fabric. We’re excited to see many of our industry-leading partners announce preview of their workload hub offerings, including Quantexa, SAS, Teradata, Osmos, Esri, and Profisee. 
• The preview of further integration with Microsoft Purview including extending Protection policies to enforce access permissions to more sources and using Data Loss Prevention policies to restrict access to semantic models with sensitive data. 
• The general availability of external data sharing allows you to directly share OneLake tables and folders with other Fabric tenants in an easy, quick, and secure manner. 
• Fabric is FedRAMP High certified for the Azure Commercial cloud, the highest level of compliance and security standards required by the federal government for cloud service providers. Now government agencies can run Fabric on the Azure Commercial cloud while maintaining strict compliance. 

You can learn more about all of these announcements and so much more in the Fabric November 2024 Update blog post and the numerous blog posts that will go live throughout this week on the Fabric blog channel.  

Fabric billing and consumption updates

Finally, we’re making some important changes to Fabric’s billing model. First, coming soon, organizations with multiple capacities can now direct Copilot in Fabric consumption and billing to a specific capacity, no matter where the Copilot in Fabric usage actually takes place. Admins can assign specific members of their organization to the specified F64 or higher capacity for all of their Copilot requests. These requests will be consumed and billed on that assigned F64+ capacity, ensuring Copilot in Fabric usage doesn’t impact priority jobs while expanding Copilot access to any workspace regardless of its capacity.

Additionally, we’re providing capacity admins with more control over the Fabric jobs running in their capacities. Surge protection, now in preview, helps protect capacities from unexpected surges in background workload consumption. Admins can use surge protection to set a limit on background activity consumption, which will prevent background jobs from starting when reached. Admins can configure different limits for each capacity in your organization to give you the flexibility to meet your needs.

Watch Fabric in action at Microsoft Ignite

Join us at Microsoft Ignite 2024 from November 19 to November 21, 2024 to see all of these announcements in action across the following sessions:  

• “Microsoft Fabric: What’s new and what’s next” with Arun Ulagaratchagan and Amir Netz
• “Power AI apps with unified data and insights in Microsoft Fabric” with Panos Antonopoulos, Anna Hoffman, and Asad Khan 
• “Ingest, govern, and secure your data with OneLake” with Josh Caplan, Wilson Lee, and Adi Regev 
• “Unlock the power of Real-Time Intelligence in the era of AI” with Yitzhak Kesselman, Tessa Kloster, Niraj Revankar, Vijay Sankaran, and Ksenia Suresh. 

And six other Fabric breakout sessions. You can also join us at labs and theater sessions throughout the event. Find all the data-related sessions at Ignite. You can also learn about other announcements across our Azure portfolio by reading these blogs by Jessica Hawk and Omar Khan. 

• The next wave of Azure innovation: Azure AI Foundry, intelligent data, and more: We’re bringing a huge range of innovation to our AI platform including the new Azure AI Foundry, a unified platform designed to empower both developers and business decision-makers in the age of AI. 
• Scale your AI transformation with a powerful, secure, and adaptive cloud infrastructure: We’re also announcing cloud and AI infrastructure announcements, from advancements in chips and liquid cooling to new data integrations and more flexible cloud deployments.  

Finally, if you want more strategic guidance to help you along your data and analytics journey in the era of AI, you should watch the recent Data and Analytics Forum.

Getting started with Microsoft Fabric

New customers can try out everything Fabric has to offer by signing up for a free 60-day trial—no credit card information required. Learn how to start your free trial.  

If you’re considering purchasing Fabric and need help deciding on a SKU, we’re excited to share a new Fabric SKU estimator, now in private preview. You can sign up to try out this tool as part of the early adopter program—try the SKU estimator.

Start building your Fabric skills

Be one of the first to start using Fabric Databases

Ready to build reliable, highly scalable applications where cloud authentication and encryption are secured by default? Starting December 3, 2024, join live sessions with database experts and see just how easy it is to get started. View the schedule and register for the series.

Get certified in Microsoft Fabric—for free

Get ready to fast-track your career by earning your Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate certification. For a limited time, we’re offering 5,000 free DP-600 exam vouchers to eligible Fabric community members. Complete your exam by the end of the year and join the ranks of certified experts. Don’t miss this opportunity to get certified. 

A new Fabric certification for data engineers

We’re excited to announce a brand-new certification for data engineers. The new Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate certification will help you demonstrate your skills with data ingestion, transformation, administration, monitoring, and performance optimization in Fabric. To earn this certification, pass Exam DP-700: Implementing Data Engineering Solutions Using Microsoft Fabric, currently in beta.

Join us at the 2025 Microsoft Fabric Community Conference

Looking to gain hands-on experience with Fabric and learn directly from the people who created it? If so, join us from March 29 to April 3, 2025, at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Register today. 

Explore additional resources for Microsoft Fabric

If you want to learn more about Fabric:  

• Sign up for the Fabric free trial. 
• Register for the Microsoft Data and Analytics Forum. 
• View the updated Fabric Roadmap. 
• Visit the Fabric website. 
• Join the Fabric community. 
• Read other in-depth, technical blogs on the Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog. 
• Explore the Fabric technical documentation.

Read additional blogs by industry-leading partners:

• “Data Governance in Microsoft Fabric with Microsoft Purview,” by CloudThat Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
•  “Key Fabric Announcements and Overview of Fabric Databases,” by Telefónica Tech.
• “Ignite 2024 – Microsoft Fabric announcements: the continued convergence of data platform and analytics to deliver intelligent insights,” by BJSS. 
• “Architecting tomorrow—A Microsoft Fabric Blueprint to intelligent enterprise covering Fabric Databases, AI Skills, Fabric and Microsoft Purview, Apache Iceberg support in OneLake,” by Avasoft Inc.
• “Microsoft Fabric Databases,” “Microsoft Fabric’s AI Skills,” and “Data Engineering: Liquid Clustering in Fabric,” by Verne Tech.
• “A First Look at Fabric Mirroring for SQL Managed Instance,” by Coeo Ltd.
• “Leveraging Microsoft Fabric for Dynamics 365 with Dataverse,” and “Automating Data Workflows in Microsoft Fabric: A Low-Code/No-Code Approach,” by PreludeSys.
• “Enabling self-service for supply chain analytics with Microsoft Fabric and Direct Lake,” “Transforming data operations with Microsoft Fabric and CI/CD for ISVs,” and “How Microsoft Fabric transformed data analytics for an ISV with Real-Time Intelligence,” by MAQ Software.
• “Real Time Intelligence for the Rest of Us with Microsoft Fabric,” by iLink Digital.       

¹Based upon n=209 user studies conducted by Microsoft Corporation in October 2024 that measured four common metrics associated with the consumption experience of Power BI in Microsoft Fabric. Qualitative sentiment gathered upon task completion. The actual results may vary. 

²Based upon n=210 user studies conducted with technical practitioners by Microsoft Corporation in October 2024 that measured time to complete four common tasks associated with AI application development on a SQL database in Microsoft Fabric and on Azure SQL Database. Actual results may vary based upon individual performance and sentiment.

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Microsoft Fabric is now generally available!

Earlier this year at Build, we announced the preview of our new, unified software as a service (SaaS) analytics solution—Microsoft Fabric. Since its launch, the response from our customers and partners has been overwhelmingly positive and we were excited to announce general availability at Ignite 2023. Fabric is completely reshaping how our customers work with data by bringing every data team together on a single, AI-powered platform.

You can learn more about Fabric and start your free 60-day trial by visiting the getting started homepage.

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Copilot in Fabric

Another exciting announcement during Ignite was the preview launch of Copilot in Fabric, starting with the Power BI, Data Factory, Data Engineering, and Data Science experiences. Copilot in Microsoft Fabric enables you to use natural language to create dataflows and pipelines, write SQL statements, build reports, or even develop machine learning models. The preview will be rolling out in stages, with the goal that customers with Fabric capacity (F64 or higher) or Power BI Premium capacity (P1 or higher) have access to the Copilot preview by the end of March 2024. Access will be immediately available when it’s enabled in your tenant. Check out our Fabric documentation for a complete overview of Copilot for Fabric.

Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric

One of the Ignite announcements I am most excited about is the introduction of Mirroring in Fabric. This new capability will enable Fabric users to effortlessly access and ingest data from any database or data warehouse into the Data Warehousing experience in Microsoft Fabric in near real-time.

To learn more about the launch dates and capabilities of Mirroring in Fabric, read Priya’s blog post. To participate in the early adopter program, submit your application today.

Enhanced governance with Microsoft Purview

As part of the preview launch of Microsoft Fabric, we announced a library of governance and security features that would enable increased visibility, insights, and flexibility in managing your data securely. At Ignite, we announced the expansion of these security and governance features with the integration of Microsoft Purview into Fabric. With this integration, you now have greater control in managing your entire data estate in a fully secure and compliant way. To find out more about Fabric’s new governance and security capabilities, read the Fabric GA announcement blog.

What are our customers and partners saying about Fabric?

It’s one thing for me to talk about how awesome the general availability launch of Microsoft Fabric is, but here’s what a couple of our customers and partners had to share:

“Previewing Fabric was a great opportunity to explore features right at the beginning and to think about how we could adopt them in our organization. We soon realized it was the natural evolution for us in our data mesh journey as it provided a complete analytics service in a single offering.”—Carl-Johan Nakamura, Chief Data Officer, ZEISS Group

“At Accenture and Avanade, we are ready to securely unify data, analytics, and AI for our clients with Microsoft Fabric. We have launched the Microsoft Fabric University that already has trained 3,000 data professionals to be fluent in Fabric, and we are taking lessons learned from building our own operations on Fabric to accelerate AI opportunities with our clients across the globe.”—Simon Thomas, Data and AI Global Lead for Avanade

Live from the conference

Here are just a few of my favorite moments from Ignite:

Catch up on any content you missed at Ignite

The session recordings are now available on-demand for any of the sessions you missed during the conference. With so many great speakers and sessions, it was hard to attend everything in real-time, but not to worry, you can now catch up with our recorded sessions. Speakers include Arun Ulag, Jessica Hawk, Amir Netz, Priya Sathy, Justyna Lucznik, and many more, so there’s lots to choose from. To watch Microsoft Fabric-focused sessions, use this pre-filtered search link, where you can browse the Fabric sessions available on demand.

Continue your Fabric learning experience

Build on the momentum from Ignite and continue your learning journey with Fabric by watching our hot-off-the-press December webinar, Democratize Analytics Insights. You’ll learn how Fabric users can employ self-service capabilities to reduce barriers and time in accessing and sharing actionable insights and reports.

I’m also thrilled to invite you to our very first Microsoft Fabric Community Conference taking place in Las Vegas, March 26-28, 2024. Over the course of three days, our featured speakers will guide you through how you can unify your data landscape with Microsoft Fabric and unlock generative AI innovation through Azure AI. We hope to see you there!

The conference will also be a great place to catch up on all the latest developments with Fabric—because we aren’t slowing down! New capabilities are rolling out every week, documented in our monthly updates, and our roadmap is publicly available so you can see what’s coming next. 

For more information on the latest developments in Microsoft Fabric and announcements from Ignite, visit the Microsoft Fabric website and read Arun’s recent Ignite blog post.

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Creating custom AI experiences requires data—lots of it. Data is the foundation on which AI is built and the simple fact is AI is only as good as the data it’s based on. As you enter a future built on AI, you need a data estate capable of fueling AI innovation across your organization. This can be a challenging prospect for most organizations whose data environments have grown organically over time with specialized and fragmented solutions.

That’s why we introduced Microsoft Fabric earlier this year. As Satya Nadella, CEO and Chairman of Microsoft, said at Microsoft Build 2023, Fabric is “perhaps the biggest launch of a data product from Microsoft since the launch of SQL Server.”

Microsoft Fabric has caught the imagination of our customers, partners, and community members. Since the preview announcement, 25,000 organizations around the world are already using Fabric today, including 67 percent of the Fortune 500. Most customers appreciate Fabric’s end-to-end value proposition, with 84 percent of companies using three or more workloads. Check out some of the early Fabric success stories with our customers:

Milliman 

“Microsoft Fabric would have been our choice from the beginning—had it only existed then. Building a democratized data platform was too big of a distraction from our focus on supporting actuaries in managing risk,”—Tom Peplow, Principal and Senior Director of Technology Strategy for Life Technology Solutions, Milliman. 

Watch Milliman’s transformation with Fabric. 

Zeiss 

“Previewing Fabric was a great opportunity to explore features right at the beginning and to think about how we could adopt them in our organization. We soon realized it was the natural evolution for us in our data mesh journey as it provided a complete analytics service in a single offering.”—Markus Morgner, Head of Enterprise Data Platform and Engineering, ZEISS Group.

Watch Zeiss’s transformation with Fabric.

Ernst and Young 

“In developing and launching EY Intelligence, Microsoft Fabric has been a game changer. Our unique analytics as a service offering gives the C-suite at our client organizations cross functional transparency and on demand insights to make better and quicker decisions,”—Swen Gehring, Director, Strategy and Transactions, Ernst and Young.

Watch Ernst and Young’s transformation with Fabric. 

Announcing the general availability of Microsoft Fabric

We are thrilled to announce Microsoft Fabric is now generally available for purchase. Microsoft Fabric can reshape how your teams work with data by bringing everyone together on a single, AI-powered platform built for the era of AI.

Watch a quick overview: 

See why we believe Microsoft Fabric will redefine the current analytics landscape:

Fabric is a complete analytics platform

Fabric combines the best of Microsoft Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Factory to create a single, unified software as a service (SaaS) platform with seven core workloads—each purpose-built for specific personas and specific tasks. By creating a single platform with tools for every data professional in a unified experience and architecture, Fabric can reduce the typical cost and effort of integrating analytics services and help simplify your data estate. Fabric’s unified architecture simplifies billing by providing a single pool of capacity and storage that is used for every workload. It also helps you manage and protect your data more effectively with end-to-end governance and security capabilities that work across your data in Microsoft Fabric and beyond. 

Fabric is lake-centric and open

Fabric’s unified, multi-cloud data lake, OneLake, is automatically wired into every Fabric workload and designed to help you simplify data management and reduce data duplication. OneLake shortcuts allow you to virtualize data into OneLake from across clouds, accounts, and domains, with sources like Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Amazon S3—all without duplication, movement, or changes to metadata or ownership. Once enabled in OneLake, you can use domains and workspaces to organize your data into a logical data mesh and empower everyone to search across this mesh using an intuitive, personalized data hub. OneLake’s open data format means you only need to load the data into the lake once and you can use the single copy across every Fabric workload and engine, minimizing data duplication and sprawl. 

Fabric empowers every business user

Microsoft Fabric was built to help foster a data culture—enabling anyone to quickly go from data sitting in a lake to stunning Power BI visuals embedded in a Microsoft 365 app. You can more easily empower your business with capabilities like Real-Time Analytics, which can empower your teams with real-time insights with incredibly low latency. In addition, Direct Lake mode in Power BI allows users to create a real-time connection from your Power BI reports to your data in OneLake. This direct integration between Power BI and OneLake helps ensure only one copy of the data is ever created, helping you promote reuse of the best data for business users and avoid data fragmentation. This data can then easily and securely flow to the Microsoft 365 applications people use every day like Microsoft Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel and more to improve decision-making and drive impact. 

Fabric is AI-powered

We are infusing AI into every layer in Microsoft Fabric to help every data professional get more done, faster. With Copilot in Microsoft Fabric, you can use natural language to create dataflows and pipelines, write SQL statements, build reports, or even develop machine learning models. Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of Copilot in Fabric, starting with the Power BI, Data Factory, Data Engineering, and Data Science experiences. In Power BI, you can create stunning reports and summarize your insights into narrative summaries in seconds. In Data Factory, you can simply describe how you want to ingest and transform the data using natural language and Copilot does the rest. When working in a notebook in Data Engineering or Data Science, you can more quickly enrich, model, analyze, and explore their data. 

The preview of Copilot in Microsoft Fabric will be rolling out in stages, with the goal that customers with Fabric capacity (F64 or higher) or Power BI Premium capacity (P1 or higher) have access to the Copilot preview by the end of March 2024. You don’t need to sign up to join the preview, it will automatically become available to you as a new setting in the Fabric Admin Portal when it has rolled-out to your tenant. When charging begins for the Copilot in Fabric experiences, you can simply count Copilot usage against your existing Fabric or Power BI Premium capacity. Check out the Copilot in Fabric docs for complete instructions and requirements and don’t hesitate to contact your Microsoft representative, partner, or leave a comment in the Fabric Community site if you have any questions. 

Let’s take a look at the latest features and integrations we are announcing in each of these areas. 

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Complete analytics platform: Govern and protect your Fabric data

Over the past few years, organizations have seen a massive increase in their digital footprint, leading to data fragmentation, growth, and blind spots across their data estate. When we announced the preview of Microsoft Fabric, we shared an array of administration, governance, and security capabilities in Fabric to help provide visibility across your tenant, insights into usage and adoption, and tools to secure and govern your data end-to-end.

We are now announcing an expansion of these governance and security capabilities through tighter integration with Microsoft Purview. In Fabric, you can now manually apply Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels to classify sensitive Fabric data—a familiar concept to the millions of Microsoft 365 users who employ these labels every day. We’ve also simplified audits by automatically capturing user and system operations in Microsoft Purview audit logs. Both sensitivity labels, and the audit integration are now generally available.

In addition to integrating Purview data security and compliance capabilities throughout Fabric, we are also infusing Fabric artifacts into the Microsoft Purview Data Map. The Data Map is automatically provisioned and attached to every Fabric instance by default; no set-up required. You can browse and search your Fabric and other assets across your data estate in the Microsoft Purview Data Catalog. For easy access to all these Purview capabilities, we’ve created a centralized page called the Purview Hub, currently in public preview, which serves as a gateway to Purview and contains insights into item inventory, sensitive data, and endorsement. Read the Fabric GA announcement blog to read about these features in more detail.

Lake-centric and open: Seamlessly connect your data sources to Fabric

The modern data estate spans multiple clouds, accounts, databases, domains, and engines, making it hard to gain insights from your data. With Microsoft Fabric, we’ve simplified how you bring data into OneLake through two key Fabric capabilities: Shortcuts and a new data replication capability called Mirroring.

Shortcuts enable your data teams to virtualize data in OneLake without having to move and duplicate it. You can use shortcuts to combine your data—spread across different clouds, accounts, lines of businesses, and domains—into a virtualized data product tailored to your specific needs. We are excited to announce the general availability of shortcuts for OneLake, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Amazon S3, and Microsoft Dataverse. Furthermore, we’ve added features like “Link to Microsoft Fabric” in Power Apps that directly link Dynamics 365 and Power Platform data to Fabric. These links empower low-code app builders to quickly explore their data and drive action from insights.

We are also excited to announce Mirroring, a new, frictionless way to add and manage existing cloud data warehouses and databases in Fabric’s Synapse Data Warehouse experience. Mirroring replicates a snapshot of the database to OneLake in Delta Parquet tables and keeps the replica in sync in near real time. Once the source database is attached, features like shortcuts, Direct Lake mode in Power BI, and our universal security model work instantly. We will soon enable Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL DB, Snowflake, and Mongo DB customers to use mirroring to access their data in OneLake, with more data sources coming in 2024.

Finally, we are also making it easier to analyze the vast amount of work data you have in Microsoft 365 with native integration into Microsoft Graph, the unified data model for products like Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, Viva Insights, and more. Previously, Microsoft 365 data was only offered in JSON format, but it’s now also offered in Delta Parquet format for easy integration into OneLake.

With your data in OneLake, you can use domains, sub domains, and workspaces to organize your data into a logical data mesh. Doing so allows for federated governance and granular control while empowering everyone to find data using an intuitive, personalized data hub. Learn more about how you can optimize your data organization in OneLake here.

Empower every business user to work with data

Fostering a culture that empowers everyone to work with data and find data-driven answers to their questions is a vision shared by organizations around the world. And you can see why when data-driven organizations continually out-perform their counterparts. Organizations often start with business intelligence (BI) tools like Power BI which can provide the business with powerful insights and visuals. But achieving this vision requires more than just the right BI tool; it requires a well-orchestrated data estate that minimizes data fragmentation and makes it easy for business users to find continually up-to-date, accurate data. By combining Power BI and OneLake, your data estate finally has the tools you need to realize the goals of your data culture.

In May 2023, we announced Direct Lake mode in Power BI, now generally available, which provides a blazing fast, real-time connection to your data—ensuring only one copy of the data is created and your report is always up to date. We are announcing an expansion of Direct Lake mode to support Power BI semantic models on Fabric Warehouses, generally available, and stored credentials for Direct Lake semantic models, in public preview. Stored credentials will enable you to apply row-level security (RLS) on Direct Lake datasets, ensuring users can only access the data for which they are authorized. For those working with import-mode semantic models using the large semantic model storage, we are announcing the public preview of OneLake integration—enabling you to add your import-mode semantic models to OneLake and use it with other Fabric workloads.

Beyond enhancing our connection with OneLake, we are also announcing a set of new tools that make it even easier for business users to uncover the insights they need. This includes the public preview of Explore, a new feature that helps you learn more about your semantic model without building a report and DAX Query View which provides BI developers with an easier way to use DAX queries. You can learn more about all these announcements by reading the Power BI at Ignite blog.

AI-powered: Prepare your data for game-changing AI

Generative AI represents not just the next generation of AI, but one of the biggest changes in computing in the last decade. As Satya Nadella put it at Microsoft Build 2023, “We went from the bicycle to the steam engine with the launch of ChatGPT.” Turn-key AI solutions like Copilot are already having an immediate impact on the productivity of adopters by helping them focus on higher value activities. As mentioned above, we are thrilled to announce that Copilot in Microsoft Fabric is now in public preview, including the experiences for Power BI, Data Factory, Data Science, and Data Engineering. Learn more about Copilot in Fabric here.

However, these out-of-the-box solutions are only the beginning of the benefits generative AI can have on your organization. Organization-specific, or even team-specific, use cases can help your employees scale in amazing ways. These custom experiences require two key ingredients: a data platform that can help you unify, prepare, and model your data and an AI platform that can utilize this data with break-through AI models. Microsoft now has the ideal answer to both requirements: Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI Studio. The recently announced Azure AI Studio, in public preview, is a one-stop-shop to seamlessly explore, build, evaluate, and deploy AI solutions using state-of-the-art AI tools and machine learning models, grounded in responsible AI practices.

We are thrilled to announce the seamless integration between Azure AI Studio and Microsoft Fabric—powering a new era in AI-driven innovation. With this potent combination, you can confidently build AI solutions and custom models in Azure AI Studio using data integrated and cleaned in Microsoft Fabric. In Azure AI Studio, developers can run models against data from OneLake and any other data supported by Fabric shortcuts, including Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Amazon S3. Azure AI Search can store, index, and retrieve data, including vector embeddings, from any of these sources through OneLake. Learn more about this integration in the Azure AI Studio and Microsoft Fabric blog.

Maximize your existing Microsoft analytics investments

Existing Azure Synapse Analytics customers

The next generation of Azure Synapse Analytics has fueled the creation of Microsoft Fabric. With this solid foundation, we can empower new, unprecedented ways of deploying pipelines, data warehousing, data engineering, data science, and real-time analytics technologies to simplify and increase the efficiency of your solutions. But what does this mean if you are an existing Azure Synapse Analytics customer?

We will continue to fully support the Azure Synapse Analytics platform as a service (PaaS) product. This includes supporting our users fixing product bugs, and not compromising the security of the platform in any way. You can continue to deploy, operate, and expand your Azure Synapse Analytics solution. 

However, you’ve likely already started thinking about a Microsoft Fabric future for your analytics solutions. To help you on this journey, we’ve published an end-to-end guide to Fabric blog for existing Synapse customers to help you plan your upgrade strategy of your current workloads.

Existing Azure Databricks customers

We believe the future of analytics and AI applications is built on an open and governed lakehouse foundation, enabling you to combine the best elements of data lakes and data warehouses. That’s why Microsoft Fabric embraces an open and governed lakehouse as the underlying SaaS storage, standardizing on Delta Parquet format—the same format our Azure Databricks customers use today.

This means Azure Databricks customers can seamlessly choose the analytics capabilities from Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, and other Azure products that work best for their scenarios, without the pain of integration. Using the ADLS Gen2 shortcut, you can bring your Azure Databricks data into OneLake without copying the data.

With that data in OneLake, an easy first use case is to use Direct Lake mode in Power BI to create a blazing fast, real-time connection to your Databricks data for your BI reports. And as a first party offering, Azure Databricks customers have easy access and native integration to many other Azure services—on top of the same open and governed lakehouse—reducing data estate fragmentation. You can learn more during the Microsoft Ignite 2023 session I am delivering, “Make your data AI ready with Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks.”

Go further with partners

As always, you don’t have to do this alone. Our top global partners, Accenture and Capgemini have over 4,200 individuals trained on Microsoft Fabric and are ready to help you meet your analytics goals.

“At Accenture and Avanade, we are ready to securely unify data, analytics, and AI for our clients with Microsoft Fabric. We have launched the Microsoft Fabric University that already has trained 3,000 data professionals to be fluent in Fabric, and we are taking lessons learned from building our own operations on Fabric to accelerate AI opportunities with our clients across the globe.”—Simon Thomas, Data and AI Global Lead for Avanade. 

“Through our strategic partnership and the transformative capabilities of Microsoft Fabric, we are accelerating data value creation for our customers. Capgemini’s investment in scaling Fabric competency is paving the way for excellence through our Fabric-specific assessment and certification via Capgemini’s OCEANS Tool, provides enterprises with the opportunity to unleash unified data and drive their organizations forward.”—Niraj Parihar, Insights and Data CEO of Capgemini.

With the surge of customer demand for Fabric, many partners have already completed the first wave of pilot projects during preview—helping customers unlock the early potential of Fabric. Our Microsoft engineering team worked closely with these partners to enhance their capacity and capabilities on Fabric, ensuring the successful delivery of customer implementations.

For example, Microsoft partner SDK Tek Services Ltd. implemented a Fabric solution with Regional Oil Sands Operating Alliance that reduced their data compilation time by 85 percent, enabling them to focus on their core business instead of managing data. In another project, Sonata Software worked with Alltech to empower their business users with self-service access to analytics and to remove the burden on their IT department. You can find more Fabric partners and their stories featured on Fabric partner website.

As a sample, here are some of the partners that successfully completed customer pilot project(s) on Fabric. Each of these partners are well positioned to drive meaningful business outcomes with Microsoft Fabric:

Learn more about the Fabric momentum driven by services partners in our Fabric Partner blog.

Join the ISV community building on Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric was created with ISVs in mind—built from the ground up to be extensible and open at every level. Fabric provides a rich set of capabilities that allow ISVs to accelerate their application development and create disruptive industry-leading offerings. This includes a new public preview, Fabric REST API that enables ISVs and our users to build custom applications, integrated systems, and automate deployment of environments within Fabric.

As an example, the London Stock Exchange Group, a leading provider of financial markets infrastructure, are adding their technology to Microsoft Fabric to give their customers easier data discovery and access, greater interoperability, and cost-effective digital rights management. Esri, a leading geographic information system (GIS) software company, have combined their industry-leading spatial analytics, powered by their ArcGIS, with Microsoft Fabric to accelerate time to insights and reveal unexplored patterns, trends, and connections for customers. SAS have infused their Intelligent Decisioning analytics technology with Microsoft Fabric to drive real-time interactions and define the next best actions at scale, providing unprecedented ability to automate decisions across the enterprise.

Learn more about the vibrant ecosystem of ISVs building on Fabric.

Get started with Microsoft Fabric

New customers can try out everything Fabric has to offer by signing up for afree 60-day trial—no credit card information required. To start your free trial, sign up for a free account (Power BI customers can use their existing account), and once signed in, select start trial within the account manager tool in the Fabric app. Existing Power BI Premium customers can already access Microsoft Fabric by simply turning on Fabric in their Fabric admin portal. Learn more on the Fabric get started page.

If you are considering purchasing Fabric, there is a selection of pricing options to help you minimize your cost and maximize your return. In June 2023, we announced pay-as-you-go prices for Fabric that allow you to dynamically scale up or scale down and pause capacity as needed. We are excited to announce reservation pricing for Fabric that will allow you to pre-commit Fabric Capacity Units in one-year increments, helping you save up to 40.5 percent over the pay-as-you-go prices (excluding Power BI Capacity SKUs). You can pay for all your consumption, across every Fabric workload, with a single, unified bill and use the Capacity Metrics app to understand and track your usage. We are also announcing OneLake BCDR and cache storage prices, expanding on our already announced OneLake storage pricing. Check out all these pricing options on the Microsoft Fabric pricing page. 

With these announcements, current Power BI Premium per capacity customers have an additional pricing option to experience everything Fabric has to offer. Along with the pay-as-you-go option, Fabric customers also enjoy smaller compute SKUs that start far below the entry level P-SKU. And since Fabric SKUs are eligible for Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC), Fabric customers can deprecate their Fabric spend against their MACC commitment.

Join us at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference

If you would like to gain hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric and learn directly from the people who created it, join us from March 24-29, 2024 at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference. We will bring together experts from Microsoft and the global analytics community to share, demo, and discuss the latest developments in Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and more. At this event, you will be able to learn from top data experts and AI leaders while having the chance to interact with your peers and share your story. We hope you will join us and see how cutting-edge technologies from Microsoft can enable your business success with the power of Microsoft Fabric. Register today.

Build the skills you need to take full advantage of Microsoft Fabric

We’re announcing an enhanced portfolio of Microsoft Credentials, including the new “Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate” certification along with several new Microsoft Applied Skills covering scenarios using Microsoft Fabric, like implementing lakehouses, data warehouses, and real-time analytics solutions. These credentials are coming in the next months.

Ready to dive into Fabric and start preparing for these credentials? Take the “Microsoft Fabric Challenge” as part of the Microsoft Learn Cloud Skills Challenge, Ignite edition. Skill up for in-demand technical scenarios and enter to win a VIP event pass for the next Microsoft Ignite or Microsoft Build. Terms and conditions apply. See official rules for more details. The challenge is available now through January 15, 2024, so get started now to avoid missing a beat.

Engage with a vibrant community of data professionals to get all your Fabric questions answered, suggest new features, stay current on the latest updates, and so much more.

Explore additional resources for Microsoft Fabric

If you want to learn more about Microsoft Fabric, consider:

• Signing up for the Microsoft Fabric free trial.
• Visiting the Microsoft Fabric website.
• Watch the Microsoft Fabric Ignite sessions. 
• Reading more in-depth, technical blogs on the Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog.
• Exploring the Fabric technical documentation.
• Attending the Supercharge organizational analytics and democratize insights webinar to get an end-to-end view of Microsoft Fabric.
• Joining the Fabric community. 
• Learning more about Azure Innovate, our new offering to help you adopt AI. 

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We are excited to announce the paths for ISVs to integrate with Microsoft Fabric towards building a powerful ecosystem for all organizations. But before looking at these approaches, I want to share why organizations and ISVs should partner with us and build various levels of integrations with Fabric. The early momentum and feedback have been simply fantastic.

Three reasons to integrate with Microsoft Fabric

Unparalleled platform capabilities

At the heart of Microsoft Fabric is an open platform—with open formats, open interfaces and application programming interfaces (APIs), and in the future—open platform integration software development kits (SDKs). For ISVs, this means the ability to weave their applications into a broader ecosystem with ease. Microsoft Fabric’s open architecture is bolstered by a rich set of APIs bringing secure access to all the customer’s data in a seamless way, which is often challenging for ISVs to access. In addition, Fabric is AI-powered with AI infused at every layer that ISVs can leverage as well to enhance their customer experience.

Reach, scalability, and growth

Microsoft Fabric will allow ISVs to reach hundreds of thousands of organizations. Integrating with this platform will bring an undeniable advantage for ISVs to expand their market. Built as a horizontal platform, it guarantees a huge reach and discoverability, from niche sectors to broad markets effortlessly. And while scalability is a prime advantage, it doesn’t come at the cost of security. Microsoft Fabric brings robust governance and security, allowing your user base to grow, while still staying secure. In addition, ISVs can leverage their existing business model via the Azure Marketplace including pay as you go approaches.

A collaborative ecosystem

Beyond the technological facets, Microsoft Fabric thrives as a community. It’s not just a platform but a collaborative ecosystem. ISVs, upon joining the Fabric community, immerse themselves in a rich pool of innovators, developers, and tech enthusiasts. This networked environment stimulates knowledge exchange, fosters potential partnerships, and enables ISVs to always have a sounding board for their innovations.

The paths to integrating with Microsoft Fabric

There are three approaches that ISVs can leverage to enable seamless integration with Fabric.

1. Inter-operate with Fabric: This is one of the easiest ways to leverage the power of the data that Fabric customers will store in OneLake. By enabling your application to work with OneLake in Fabric, using published APIs and SDKs, ISVs can make sure that their existing and new customers can have seamless experience with Fabric while using ISV applications. This approach is already being used by hundreds of ISVs.
2. Develop Apps on Fabric: Organizations and application providers can embed Fabric as part of their solution offerings, enabling rapid application development and deployment—using Fabric’s platform security, identity, storage, and compute model.
3. Build a Fabric workload: ISVs can provide a familiar look and feel of Fabric and make their applications discoverable from within the Fabric experience by extending Fabric’s capabilities through building a Fabric workload.

All ISVs can implement the first two approaches with Microsoft Fabric today. The third approach is still under development and is currently only accessible by invitation only.

Designing for the future

We are also excited to announce our collaboration with several industry-leading ISVs who have been demonstrating the possibilities of bringing their product experiences as workloads into Fabric, widening their reach and breadth of capabilities.

Microsoft and LSEG are collaborating to bring LSEG’s financial markets intelligence offerings into Fabric as first-class experiences to customers in the financial services industry and beyond. We are incredibly excited about this collaboration that will allow our joint customers to derive more value from LSEG’s high-value financial data and their unique data transformation capabilities.

“LSEG’s trusted financial markets intelligence natively integrated into Microsoft Fabric, will make data access, discovery and digital rights management easier and more cost effective for our customers. In collaboration with Microsoft, we are empowering our customers to focus on creating unique insights bringing the transformational power of Generative AI.”—Dmitri Sedov, Global Group Head, Data Intelligence.

For businesses relying on spatial analytics, Esri is helping transform decision-making with spatial insights that will be enabled directly within the Microsoft Fabric experience, powered by their ArcGIS service.

“Esri and Microsoft are reshaping how everyone works with data. Now data professionals will have direct access to core Esri capabilities inside of their Microsoft Fabric environment. We are pleased to advance our important work with Microsoft and see the power of spatial insights unlocked for our shared customers.”—Jack Dangermond, President of Esri.

Informatica is delivering its AI-powered Cloud Data Management solution as a unified experience with Microsoft Fabric, addressing customers’ critical data challenges to find, understand, govern, and trust data.

SAS Intelligent Decisioning engine integrated into Microsoft Fabric will drive real-time interactions, and define the next best actions at scale, providing unprecedented ability to automate decisions across the enterprise.

Teradata is delivering its AI Unlimited serverless AI/machine learning engine via Microsoft Fabric enabling customers to go beyond SQL and extract additional value from their data, all stored in an open format in OneLake.

The combination of mass distribution, instant access to the customer’s data estate, and a strong community is getting enthusiastic reactions from ISVs, serving the needs of customers across industry verticals and horizontals. We’d love for you to get familiar with and evaluate Microsoft Fabric as an open platform for your application.

Learn more about Microsoft Fabric

• Watch the ISV session at Microsoft Ignite 2023.
• Check out the pathways to integrate with Fabric.
• Nominate to Azure Innovate for comprehensive investments.
• Publish to the Commercial Marketplace.

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The Microsoft Fabric blog channel

Microsoft Fabric delivers an integrated and streamlined software as a service (SaaS) experience for all analytics workloads and data teams on an enterprise grade data foundation. It enables persistent data governance and a single capacity pricing model that scales with your growth—and it’s open at every layer with no proprietary lock-ins. With a single, unified platform, the effort of managing an integrated analytics service, including governance, security, and billing, is reduced and simplified.

In this new blog channel, we’ll address topics that help you navigate the world of analytics. Expect to see thought leadership content, customer and partner case studies, best practices, Fabric product announcements, and more.

Can’t wait to get started? Join us at Microsoft Ignite.

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Experience AI transformation in action at Microsoft Ignite

At Microsoft Ignite 2023, experience AI transformation in action with Fabric. Discover the latest technology, advance your skills, and find solutions to your technical roadblocks. Learn how to create more value from your data by leveraging Fabric and AI solutions, while effectively integrating and managing your data estate. The in-person event is sold out, but you can still register to join us online on November 15 and 16, 2023 to learn from experts in the industry across keynotes, sessions, breakouts, and more.

And no surprise, Ignite will also be the place to learn how Fabric addresses core analytics workloads by combining the best of Microsoft Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Factory.

Harness your data estate for the era of AI

With dozens of sessions covering Fabric, Ignite will help you understand how to harness your data estate to deliver powerful AI applications. It all kicks off with Jessica Hawk, Arun Ulagaratchagan, and Amir Netz delivering the Make your data AI ready with Fabric and Azure Databricks​ session. You’ll learn how to unlock value and prepare your data for the era of AI with Fabric and Azure Databricks. Join this demo-heavy session where we’ll show how Fabric enables data governance while integrating Power BI, Data Factory, and the next generation of Synapse to offer users a modern, price performant analytics solution.

Don’t miss additional breakout sessions and discussions to continue your learning, including:

• Build ISV apps with Microsoft Fabric in the Intelligent Data Platform​ with Dipti Borkar.
  • Learn how to accelerate your application development and increase your appeal with Fabric customers by building your apps in the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform.

• Unify your data across domains, clouds, and engines in OneLake​ with Joshua Caplan, Priya Sathy, and Amir Netz.
  • Learn how to use OneLake to unify your data across clouds, accounts, and engines faster and more efficiently than ever before, including data in Azure Databricks. No matter where your data is, OneLake can accelerate your data potential.

• Build powerful AI apps with Copilot in Microsoft Fabric​ with Justyna Lucznik and Nellie Gustafsson.
  • Build new analytics and AI models and increase developer productivity with Copilot in Fabric. Learn how to empower your data scientists and data analysts by bridging the world of business intelligence and AI. Democratize AI to increase collaboration between data and machine learning professionals.

• Migrating your data estate to Fabric and getting started Q&A with Justyna Lucznik, Priya Sathy, Wee Hyong Tok, and Amir Netz.
  • Not sure where to get started? Join our product experts to ask questions and get answers to common questions like how to migrate to Fabric from Synapse and start proofs of concept with departments where you want to gain traction quickly.

Don’t delay—register for Microsoft Ignite today and bookmark the Fabric blog for future announcements, updates, and insights.

• If you are unable to attend Ignite 2023 live, these sessions will be available on-demand after the event to registered attendees

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